EMIF: “Digital Citizen, Digital Patient”

“It is hard enough to take the measurements needed for regulators in the clinic, let alone to reflect what matters to patients, and wearables certainly help”, said Elin Haf Davies

“By removing barriers to data exchange, EMIF has provided potent demonstrations of the power of pooling resources in Alzheimer’s disease and metabolic disorders. These exemplars are incentivising data sharing”, says Nigel Hughes

Making data repositories visible and easy to access is transforming translational research in Alzheimer’s disease. “You can answer questions you couldn’t before,” says Simon Lovestone, academic lead of the programme

Estonia provides an exemplar of how member states can draw on EU projects to support the development of ehealth applications. “We’ve not discovered anything here – we just implement,” says Peeter Ross

“In Estonia, it is now assumed a natural thing that when a patient moves through the healthcare system and between health and social care, that the data about the individual is available”, says Ain Aaviksoo